I feel like I’m inching towards the finish line on this sweater.  My right shoulder has been sore for a few days so I haven’t made much progress at all.  I finally managed to finish the back of the cardigan this afternoon and I cast on and knit one row of the first sleeve but that’s all I could manage for today.  I really need to finish the first part of my KnitPicks project so I’m going to set the cardigan aside and work tonight.  I’ve pretty much given up finishing the sweater before the end of the Olympics but my mom’s birthday isn’t for another month and I’ll have it done by then, no problem.  I still really love the pattern and the way the sweater looks and I think my mom is going to like it, too.

I mentioned at the beginning of January that I ordered a new ukulele and I finally got it Saturday.  I bought it on Ebay from Musicguymic’s Room and the service was spectacular.  I made my order on December 30 and waited and waited and waited for my ukulele to get here, I waited about a month and a half.  I figured it should have been here by then so I sent off an e-mail asking if it had been shipped or if I should have it, and he just sent me another one, no questions asked.  I had it less than a week later.  I’m having a lot of fun playing with it and learning a few songs.  This is a Makala Dolphin ukulele with a plastic body and Aquila strings.  It was cheap, $50 with shipping, and sounds great and plays really good.  I like this so much more than my Baritone uke I got a few years ago.  It might be a cheap little thing but it is definitely not a toy.  I’m really happy with it.  And it’s black and sparkly, there’s black glitter in the finish, how cute.